ERNA: A graphic user interface-based tool optimized for large data analysis from high-throughput RNA sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yuan, Tiezheng ^a   Huang, Xiaoyi ^a   Dittmar, Rachel L ^a   Du, Meijun ^a   Kohli, Manish ^b   Boardman, Lisa ^b   Thibodeau, Stephen N ^b   Wang, Liang ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics tool; Graphic user interface; Parallel processing; RNA sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ERNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTERNET; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84897493652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-176     Document Type: Article

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